Title says it all. This is to settle an argument. I’d appreciate it if you could mention your geographical location, too. Thanks in advance.
I have tomato sauce with steak if that helps.
Australia.
Actual good quality steak?! No! I might put a very little bit of A1 on a steak, I might have it wrapped in bacon, or with peppercorns, grilled onions or mushrooms and the like. I might even have Swiss Steak, and have onions, tomatoes, celery and green pepper on it. But I wouldn’t put ketchup on it. I live in Kansas. The most people here would do to a steak (most people, anyway) would be something like A1, Heinz 57, or sometimes barbeque sauce.
Coming back to add, chicken fried steaks don’t count. I put white peppery gravy on that, and sometimes I use ketchup on that instead.
The ketchup goes with chips/fries, not the steak itself. Tartare sauce goes very nicely with both. I made do with garlic mayo last night. 
I live in Fort Worth, Texas, and I only put ketchup on fries and meatloaf. Ketchup on a steak, especially a good steak, is a sin. I think that a good steak will usually only need a bit of salt and maybe some lemon butter on it. I usually don’t even use steak sauce.
Dallas, Texas (waves at Lynn from across the Metroplex). Salt and maybe a touch of black pepper on steak. Only children put ketchup on anything other than fries. 
Ketchup on steak is a sin against nature. If you wanted to eat candy, why did you buy meat??
I can’t eat black pepper, but if I could, I’d probably put it on steak. Now sometimes I DO put some garlic on steak, but usually I don’t. (waves back at Turek)
One of the sacred English traditions is Heinz Tomato Ketchup with chips.
Steaks deserve pepper sauce or Sauce Diane or Marmite gravy. 
I eat mine either plain, with black pepper, or with some Dijon mustard. Garlic sounds very good. I’m sort of a minimalist when it comes to sauces on meats.
Never ketchup, but then I don’t like ketchup on anything.
Originally from Boston, growing up with a French father who did all the steak cooking.
Ketchup on a steak? Not a chance.
No. A good steak should need no adornment. I will put A1 steak sauce on a lesser steak. Never Ketchup. If it needs A1, I usually won’t buy steak at that restaurant again.
All the time. I alternate dipping between ketchup and A1 if both are available.
Actually, my personal favorite is to grill the steak with a coating of ketchup. Then dip the finished product in A1. This thread reminded me that there is some good looking chuck steak on sale this week, I need to go get some.
And I’m from mid-Michigan.
OMG! :eek:
People would actually do such a thing? :rolleyes:
I’m not a big fan of steak sauces in the first place, but ketchup? :dubious:
No.
Yes. Not often, but if the alternative is only A1 and I can’t order something else, I use Hinze ketchup.
I don’t see how someone can find steak sauce or barbeque sauce acceptable, but think ketchup as weird. I knew somebody would be pretentious about the ketchup before I even opened the thread. The fact you can’t use ketchup on a steak, doesn’t make you superior in anyway, just pretentious.
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to ruin perfectly good ketchup by putting a piece of meat under it.
I’d never even think to put ketchup on steak. Just wouldn’t occur to me as an option. I’d eat it with a lemon or herb butter or with a horseradish cream sauce, but not ketchup.
I love ketchup with fries, on hamburgers, on meatloaf, on fried eggs, and probably on other stuff I’m not thinking of. Don’t eat a lot of ketchup because I don’t it any of the above all that often.
I don’t care for many barbecue sauces and pretty much only eat food with barbecue sauce if there isn’t a choice. Don’t really like steak sauces. There are maybe 2 I’ve tried that were OK.
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No ketchup on steak. No steak sauce either. I think the flavor of good beef stands on its own.
I’m from Michigan.